Gender equality in the workplace: the perceptive reality

In developing societies many idiosyncrasies structure the social congregation which has directly or indirectly led to gender inequalities. A plethora of literature is available on various aspects of gender but this particular study focuses on perceptive reality, an area which has not been addressed.This study is conducted in four categories of jobs viz., education, media, administration and medicine & health to capture whether any difference exists between what is spelt out theoretically and what is the perceptive reality. The data has been collected from these target groups by instituting survey questionnaires and subsequentl statistical analysis. The results show a significant difference between gender equality and perceptive reality. This study also epitomizes the reasons and provides suggestions to reduce the gap.